[sldev] UUID variant/version bits?

Lawson English lenglish5 at cox.net
Wed Nov 28 14:43:23 PST 2007


Dzonatas wrote:
> Argent Stonecutter wrote:
>> Unless someone has changed things recently, I believe that the intent 
>> is for externally-visible assets to be presented as URIs, not UUIDs.
>
> Yes. A UUID by itself is only good within a domain.  Outside of that, 
> some kind of extra hash or URL partition scheme is needed to allow 
> external resources to reference internal keys.
>
>

Its going to be interesting trying to keep things on track THAT way, 
given the vast number of third party clients and grids that will spring 
up if the meta-grid becomes a reality.


Lawson


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